The "single photons know about the whole image" was presented YEARS ago. They proved it as well, making photographic images sending "single photon" (er ... beams isn't the right word) through an image.
Although each photon arrived at the photographic plate individually, when the plate was developed it showed the (negative of) the image.
When the professor (QPh) showed us the grainy image, we first said he made that up. But he insisted "to try it ourselves" ... (sorry, he refused to give us a special study grant to repeat the experiment, and single-photon-beamers were out of our financial reach, so I take this as an argument of authority)
Later, studying QPh , and still later reading about it (last years' book by Anton Zeilinger: "Toeval" was a GOOD read) the idea came back.
Having the earth organised by stochastical "chances" is still weird, and the quantum concepts are too. But that's the world welive with: take out quantum physics, forget about semiconductors and plasma screens ... UF wouldn't exist. |
